Civil Society and Government

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Nancy Lipton Rosenblum, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Robert C. Post
Princeton University Press, 2002 - 408 עמודים

Civil Society and Government brings together an unprecedented array of political, ethical, and religious perspectives to shed light on the complex and much-debated relationship between civil society and the state. Some argue that civil society is a bulwark against government; others see it as an indispensable support for government. Civil society has been portrayed both as a independent of the state and as dependent upon it. This book reveals the extraordinary diversity of views on the subject by examining how civil society has been treated in classical liberalism, liberal egalitarianism, critical theory, feminism, natural law, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Confucianism.


The volume draws on the work of eminent scholars to address six questions: In terms of function and consequences, does it matter where the line is drawn between civil society and the state? What is the relationship of civil society to the state? In what contexts and under what conditions should government interact with individuals directly or instead indirectly through communal associations? What are the prerogatives and duties of citizenship, and what is the role of civil society in forming good citizens? How should a society handle the conflicts that sometimes arise between the demands of citizenship and those of membership in the non-governmental associations of civil society?


A theoretical introduction by the editors--political theorist Nancy Rosenblum and legal scholar Robert Post--and a conclusion by religious ethicist Richard Miller, tie the book together. In addition to Rosenblum, the contributors are Kenneth Baynes, David Biale, John Coleman, Farhad Kazemi, John Kelsay, William Galston, Will Kymlicka, Tom Palmer, Fred Miller, Susan Moller Okin, Peter Nosco, Henry Rosemont, Steven Scalet, David Schmidtz, William Sullivan, Max Stackhouse, Stephen White, and Noam Zohar.

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Introduction
1
State Civil Society and Classical Liberalism
26
Definitions History and Relations
48
A LiberalEgalitarian Perspective
79
A Family of Theories Not a Single View
111
Civil Society and the Early Frankfurt School
146
Feminist Perspectives on Civil Society and Government
151
Comment on Nancy Rosenblums Feminist Perspectives on Civil Society and Government
179
A Protestant Response
255
Seeking Judaic Insights
265
Response to Noam Zohar
280
Civil Society and Government in Islam
284
Perspectives on Islam and Civil Society
317
Confucian Perspectives on Civil Society and Government
334
Commentary and Addenda on Noscos Confucian Perspectives on Civil Society and Government
360
The Virtues and Vices of Civil Society
370

Natural Law Civil Society and Government
187
A Response
216
Christianity and Civil Society
223
CONTRIBUTORS
397
INDEX
401
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מידע על המחבר (2002)

Nancy L. Rosenblum is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of Membership and Morals (Princeton), Another Liberalism, and editor of Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith (Princeton). Robert C. Post is Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Constitutional Domains and editor or coeditor of several other books.

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